429 – Slightly Sticky

Dracularmy (X-Men Unlimited #21)

In which you should stop hatin’, there’s a big difference between fill-ins and filler, Snow Valley needs higher Ferris wheel standards, Todd DeZago must really hate video rental clerks, and we’re all monsters – some of us just smell better than others.

X-PLAINED:

• Strong Guy’s hellacious history
• The nature and purpose of X-Men Unlimited
• X-Men Unlimited #20-21
• Rock Trolls (Chambliss, Nettles, and Munson)
• What Asgard was up to in 1998
• Magik vs magic
• The Snow Valley Harvest Festival
• Jubilation Lee, one of the guys
• Eagles vs Hats
• Fatman, Beardlady-o, Stickman-o, & Frogman-o
• Tic Tac Toe fundamentals
• Angry mobs
• Paige Guthrie, Angry Mom
• The many potential applications of Husk’s powers
• Falls Edge, VA vs Eagle Ridge, WV
• Payphones & video rental stores
• X-friends
• Rutland, VT (again)
• Melvin J. Weals
• Helen Back
• The Donnybrook Country Club
• Cat Fancier & Motorcycle Conventions
• The Shi’ar Wardrobe Transmogrifier
• Steel (the Shaq one)
• The worst pun we’ve ever seen in a comic
• Earth: the Hipster Planet
• Which X-Men throw the best and/or wildest Halloween parties
• Fan-casting X-voices

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